* Sletcher, Michael.

* Michael Sletcher, New Haven: From Puritanism to the Age of Terrorism, ( Charleston, 2004 )

* Michael Sletcher, ‘ North American Indians ’, in Will Kaufman and Heidi Macpherson, eds., Britain and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, ( 2 vols., Oxford, 2005 ).

The Bimini Road, a submerged rock formation of large rectangular stones just off North Bimini Island in the Bahamas, was claimed by Robert Ferro and Michael Grumley to be evidence of the lost civilization.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

When Michael S. Swavely retired as president of Compaq's North American division on July 12, 1991, Eckhard Pfeiffer was named to succeed him.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.

** In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.

* April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage ( which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River ).

* Chul Chun: Kreativität und Relativität der Welt beim frühen Whitehead: Alfred North Whiteheads frühe Naturphilosophie ( 1915 – 1922 )-eine Rekonstruktion, mit einem Vorwort von Michael Welker, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-7887-2352-1

* 1989: Michael Skube, The News & Observer ( Raleigh, North Carolina ), " for his writing about books and other literary topics.

Following the resignation of Michael Reiss, the director of education at the Royal Society — who had controversially argued that school pupils who believed in creationism should be used by science teachers to start discussions, rather than be rejected per se — Polkinghorne argued in The Times that there is a distinction between believing in the mind and purpose of a divine creator, and what he calls creationism " in that curious North American sense ," with a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and the belief that evolution is wrong, a position he rejects.

Clemens August patronised the arts ; among others he ordered to build the palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, listed on the UNESCO cultural world heritage list, and the church of St Michael in Berg am Laim in Munich.

Singer George Michael ( the son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur in North London ) was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.

On December 23, 1988, the Hornets really gave their fans something to cheer about, beating Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls 103 – 101 at the buzzer in Jordan's first return to North Carolina as a professional.

Additionally, Michael Jordan, a North Carolina native, began negotiations to become part-owner of the team, but talks collapsed when Shinn refused to grant Jordan total control over the basketball side of the operation.

Michael and All Angels Church, North Parade, Penwerris

There is a strong Gaelic Athletic Association ( GAA ) presence in County Clare with the founder of the GAA, Michael Cusack, having been born in Carron which is situated in the heart of The Burren in North Clare.

James Chaney and other local residents, along with Michael Schwerner, his wife Rita, and Andrew Goodman, volunteers from the North, worked on creating a community center to help prepare African Americans in the area to regain the power to vote.

In 1630, Michael Pauw, a burgemeester ( mayor ) of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company, received a land grant as patroon on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the North River.

, the Mayor of North Plainfield is Michael Giordano, Jr. Members of the North Plainfield Borough Council are Council President Frank " Skip " Stabile, Vice President Douglas M. Singleterry, Mary H. Forbes, Lawrence La Ronde, Everett Merrill, Keiona R. Miller and Frank Righetti.

* Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a U. S. Navy SEAL and North Patchogue native ( 1976 ), posthumously received the Medal of Honor in 2007 for bravery in action against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2005.

Actress and singer Bethany Joy Galeotti, a star of the TV series One Tree Hill, resides in Battle Ground with her husband, Enation drummer Michael Galeotti, when she is not filming in Wilmington, North Carolina.

* 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor

* 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American astronaut ( d. 1986 )

* 1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver

* 1959 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer

* 1976 – Michael Weiss, American figure skater

* 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( Doll Congress )

* 1973 – Michael Ealy, American actor

* 1944 – Michael Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1980 – Michael Urie, American actor and director

* 1958 – Michael E. Harkin, American anthropologist

* 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

* 1915 – Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2007 )

* 1939 – Michael D. Antonovich, American politician

* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director

* 1980 – Michael Todd, American bass player ( Coheed and Cambria )

* Michael Alfonso, or Mike Awesome, American wrestler.

* 1963 – Michael Panes, American actor, writer, musician, and composer

* 1950 – Michael ( Dahulich ), American bishop

* 1954 – Michael P. Kube-McDowell, American novelist

* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor ( The Jackson 5 ) ( d. 2009 )

* 1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor

* 1966 – Michael Michele, American actress

* 1988 – Michael Cavanaugh, American gamer

* 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player

* 1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor